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MARCH 4, 2025

The research, published in Antiquity 1 , challenges long-held assumptions that this part of Africa was a historical void waiting to be "awakened" by foreign traders. “Kach Kouch decisively challenges the notion that the north-western Maghreb was essentially terra nullius prior to Phoenician arrival,” the researchers write.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rural-serving institutions are defined by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, which Koricich directs, as those that share such characteristics as being located in counties classified as rural and a certain distance from metropolitan areas. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. We are here to engage them in the kinds of high-impact discovery learning that public research universities can offer at scale; the kinds of experiences that can change the trajectory of their lives and the lives of their families.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. Sign up here. This one was real life.”

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MAY 20, 2024

Early research is finding that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89 percent of the time.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Sheep and the Rise of Human Societies For over 11,000 years, sheep have been central to human survival, providing food, milk, wool, and economic stability to societies from the Near East to the edges of Europe and beyond. But how did this partnership begin? Sheep in arid landscape, southeastern Morocco. Photo by J.

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MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In an AI-driven future, our greatest strength will not be IQ or EQ but RQ Relational Intelligence the capacity to connect, understand and thrive through human relationships.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. This further underscores their ceremonial importance rather than economic utility. ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R. Antiquity , 97(392), 784-799. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.784

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) Researchers are confident that nudging texts did produce real benefits.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. Schleicher found in his research that disadvantaged schools often have more, but less qualified, teachers.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . We need to focus on investing more resources in designing innovative solutions that provide job skills for working-class adults, connecting these Americans to better economic opportunities. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

These skills matter whether you’re hoping to score an A on a research presentation, perform a soliloquy or secure funding from a venture capitalist. Together they not only engage both sides of the brain, they bring us a fuller experience of the world — to say nothing of the economic opportunities.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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MARCH 26, 2018

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress keeps growing (and growing), but discrimination persists. New, important research out of Stanford University, Harvard University and the U.S. Many are calling this research groundbreaking. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

“The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. A consistent body of research has found that high school grades are more predictive of how a student will do in college.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

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JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Past research had shown that these signals relate to academic performance. Some findings make intuitive sense. Some are completely surprising. classrooms. classrooms.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. Related: New research finds “Magic 8” preschool practices.

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MARCH 11, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Rather, he saw mechanical forms of solidarity as already containing all of the elements of organic solidarity, like an embryo that grows into a human being.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. Because DNA encodes proteins, this research addressed a fundamental question: How much do individuals of the same species vary genetically? On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. The decades out-of-date genetics taught in most U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Nobody else was listening, I could ask any question I needed. In just five months, Smith completed her GED math class.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This module looks at how humans interact with the sea using aquariums as the lens in which to see them. Human geography, including economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. These resources can be used under the creative commons CC BY-NC licence.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In Georgia, the problem is particularly acute at the public research and regional universities, where students often sign on for higher levels of debt in the hopes that a bachelor’s degree will lead to a higher paying job. It’s a problem occurring in other states as well. Related: The new North-South divide: Public higher education.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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JUNE 19, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The researchers found that students who spent more time in class solving practice problems on their own and taking quizzes and tests tended to have higher scores in math. Researchers didn’t prove that teachers’ choices on how to spend class time caused GCSE scores to go up.

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APRIL 10, 2024

“AI is going to eat assessments for lunch,” said Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he co-authored a research series on the future of assessments. Piacentini said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs PISA, is exploring the possible use of AI in several realms.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible. Alongside the UN analysis is a report from the World Economic Forum. and break records.

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MARCH 28, 2024

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us By Geoff Dancy , University of Toronto and Christopher J. Fariss , University of Michigan Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? The answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.” Read the full article.

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